Main entry: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous
Definition: in a state of sexual virginity
Usage: pure and vestal modesty; a spinster or virgin lady; men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal
Definition: (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
Main entry: pure
Definition: concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
Usage: pure science
Main entry: pure
Definition: free from discordant qualities
Main entry: unadulterated, thoroughgoing, staring, stark, sodding, utter, complete, everlasting, perfect, arrant, pure, gross, consummate, double-dyed
Definition: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Usage: an arrant fool; a complete coward; a consummate fool; a double-dyed villain; gross negligence; a perfect idiot; pure folly; what a sodding mess; stark staring mad; a thoroughgoing villain; utter nonsense; the unadulterated truth
Main entry: pure
Definition: (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless
Usage: I felt pure and sweet as a new baby- Sylvia Plath; pure as the driven snow
Main entry: pure
Definition: free of extraneous elements of any kind
Usage: pure air and water; pure gold; pure primary colors; the violin's pure and lovely song; pure tones; pure oxygen